A visit to the garden of earthly delights

The tour is driven by Ramon Maria Masalles, emeritus professor of Botany at the Faculty of Biology and  member of the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), telling about the distribution of the plants around the house, structured in three different parts: a garden area, an old vegetable garden and a small forest area. Although we are in front of a collection of all the plants we can find in Barcelona and its surroundings, Dr. Masalles highlights that when entering the house there are Carpinus betulus, coming from Central Europe –which are not common in Catalonia. Since the tour starts under a Tilia tree, he tells the differences between dedicious and perennial trees; gives a tip to identify a Tilia tree by looking at its leaves and comments on the particular shape of its fruit, which allows it to be moved by the wind. “It is important for a plant to have fruits that go far so that the species survive”, says the expert.

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